Ross Hill

I'm a front-end developer who specializes in React.js and I'm always on the lookout for cool new technologies.

Over the past year, I've had the pleasure to work on the QHack's technology team, building internal tools and improving our online presence. QHacks is a hackathon hosted at Queen’s University where software developers come together to collaborate on projects and win prizes. I helped to create a landing page for the event and the application system for QHacks participants.

Projects

The goal of this webpage is to provide a high-level overview of what global warming is: how it's caused, how much the Earth has warmed, and its observed and predicted effects. Made with React Static, a static-site generator for React, IsEarthStillWarming.com fetches up-to-date climate data from NASA and NOAA servers and displays the data as charts to provide a visualization of how global warming is progressing.

QHacks is a hackathon hosted at Queen’s University where software developers come together to collaborate on projects and win prizes. As part of the Technology team on the QHacks 2018/2019 Executive, my role was to help build a new website for the event that contains information on sponsors, the event schedule, and how to apply.

My personal website, rosshill.ca, provides information about me and serves as a showcase of my projects. Originally the website was built in plain-old HTML, JavaScript, and SASS. Eventually though, after having gained experience in React.js, I felt that my webpage could use the functionality a library like React provides. Eventually I settled on using an exciting new framework, Sapper. What got me interested in Sapper, was a blog post by the framework's creator Rich Harris.